Australia is known for its deadly creatures of unusual size. From the saltwater crocodile to the box jellyfish and even the ...

While the quickest recorded death from a Sydney funnel-web spider was a toddler at 13 minutes, the average is closer to 76 ...

They're often brightly colored and build beautiful webs of concentric circles and radiating lines. Funnel weaver spiders. Usually brown or gray in color, they have stripes near the head and a ...

Movies about creepy crawlers, like shark films, have carved out their own horror subgenre — scientific accuracy aside. ‘Sting ...

Removing a King Brown snake from its storage locker ... Image caption, No one in Australia has been killed by a Sydney Funnel-web Spider since 1981 when the antivenom programme started This ...

Often confused with the Brown Recluse, it features pale yellow coloring. Its bites can cause mild necrosis and are known to provoke allergic reactions in some individuals. The Mouse Spider, indigenous ...

Most spiders don’t swim by choice. But they sure can survive in water when they need to. From floating like a boat, to ...